Historical transits is approximately 138/day with just 3 observed in the last 24 hours.
Reported here.
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Trump urges allies he's been insulting for over a year to send help to get oil flowing again from the Persian Gulf
... This should have always been a team effort.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Ann Coulter believes in an anti-war myth of her own making, says an anti-war Trump won a huge majority in the 2016 Republican primary in pro-war South Carolina when 67% voted for anybody else
... Waging pointless wars around the world and being the world's policeman. How many times do we have to vote on this?
I mean, Trump was attacked for the things he said in 2016. Remember, he
said, Jeb's father lied us into war. The Wall Street Journal and New
York Post assured us that that was going to kill him in South Carolina,
biggest military state in the country.
That was in the South Carolina primary. Next day, primaries hold. Who
wins? Huge, huge majority. Donald Trump. We have voted on this over and
over and over again. Now what? We've already had how many? Seven
Americans die, not to mention 166 school children in our name for a war
that does not make one American safer.
Here.
Even today, strong approval of Donald Trump is only a 30% proposition at Rasmussen Reports.
SPX/GDP, then vs. now
SPX(average annual)/GDP(trillions of dollars), then vs. now
1938: 131
1942: 52
1964/1965: 118
1982: 35
2000: 139
2009: 65
2019: 135
2025: 202
Median 1938-2019: 81
This ratio has been above 139 for six consecutive years 2020-2025, which is unprecedented for the era shown. Even so, return places third because dividends are puny in the age of obscenely overpaid dirty rotten CEOs and management.
Return: nominal/real, average per annum, dividends fully reinvested
12/1942-12/1965: 15.43%/12.30%
12/1982-12/2000: 16.66/12.97
12/2009-12/2025: 14.09/11.23
Ronald Reagan didn't make America great again, and neither has Trump
Ronald Reagan didn't make America great again, and neither has Trump.
Real GDP Compound Annual Growth Rates
1947-1984: 3.652%
1984-2017: 2.675%
2017-2025: 2.416%
Friday, March 13, 2026
That right there is a stagflation headline
Fourth-quarter GDP revised down to just 0.7% growth; January core inflation was 3.1%
Economic growth was much slower than expected in the final three months of 2025 while core inflation rose to start 2026, the Commerce Department reported Friday. ...
The first revision of the GDP reading was a sharp step down from the previous estimate of 1.4% and well below the Dow Jones consensus forecast for 1.5%. It also marked a considerable slowdown from the 4.4% gain in the prior period. For the full year, GDP posted a 2.1% increase, or one-tenth of a percentage point lower than the previous reading. In 2024, the economy rose at a 2.8% pace. ...
On the inflation side, readings for January were mostly in line with estimates, though they showed price increases running well ahead of where the Federal Reserve would like. ...
Core pce inflation has been range-bound around 3% since Dec 2023. For 2009 through 2020 it averaged half that, 1.5%.
The compound annual rate of real GDP growth since 2017 has been 2.416%, almost 34% lower than the post-war rate for 1947 through 1984 of 3.652%.
The rate for 1984 through 2017, also using today's data, was 2.675%, also higher than the rate since the Trump tax reform eight years ago.
Trump has not made America great again, any more than Reagan did.
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Trump's voting legislation faces defeat in the U.S. Senate next week
Trump is convinced illegal aliens vote in large enough numbers to prevent Republicans from winning even though he and the Republicans swept into office in 2024 and control the executive and legislative branches of government.
Trump-backed SAVE America Act will get a Senate vote next week, Thune says
The legislation is expected to fail unless a change is made to the filibuster, which requires 60 votes on most measures considered by the Senate. ...
For months Trump, GOP hardliners and online influencers like Elon Musk have railed against opponents of the bill and called repeatedly for a change to the Senate filibuster rule to ensure passage in the upper chamber. Thune supports the legislation but has rejected those calls, saying changing Senate procedure could have unintended consequences. Speaking from the Senate floor Thursday, he made no mention of changing the chamber’s rules, all but assuring the proposal will not pass. ...
Anticipating the bill’s failure in the Senate, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who introduced the legislation, and other proponents have engaged in a pressure campaign to revert back to a “standing filibuster,” which requires dissenting members to actively hold the Senate floor to block legislation and could, in theory, allow for the passage of the bill with a simple 50-vote majority. ...
Fox News on Mar 11 was still letting a former NSC staffer repeat the false assertion in Energy Secretary Chris Wright's Mar 10 erroneous and quickly deleted post
Energy Secretary Wright says U.S. ‘not ready’ to escort oil tankers through Strait of Hormuz yet
... Wright’s comments come after a post on his social media account wrongly claimed on Tuesday [Mar 10] that the Navy had escorted a tanker through the Strait. The post was quickly deleted from his account, but it sent oil prices plunging more than 17% at their lows Tuesday.
President Donald Trump promised on March 3 that “the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible.”
Tanker traffic through the Strait remains at a standstill as ship owners fear attacks by Iran. The closure of the Strait has triggered the largest oil supply disruption in history, according to analyses from consulting firms Rapidan Energy and Wood Mackenzie. ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Mad King Ludwig to release 172 million barrels of oil from SPR lol
That will take the level below 250 million barrels, enough to last the country just twelve days in an emergency.
Iran war: Trump will release 172 million barrels of oil from Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Cornyn is the scoundrel Texas deserves
Sen. John Cornyn flips on the filibuster to pass SAVE America Act as Trump weighs endorsement
Cornyn, who spent years defending the filibuster, is locked in a competitive GOP runoff in Texas against Ken Paxton, who has aligned with Trump on the issue. ...
You will not be any wiser for having read it
The best part was the professor who lamented Epstein's typos while he himself misused the word disinterest:
“It was nihilistic almost in its total disinterest in communicating,” Bessner said.
The dumbasses at Fox don't know the meaning of decimates, showcase an NSC liar THIS MORNING who says U.S. Navy escorted ships through Hormuz yesterday when they did not
To be fair, they're just repeating what our ignoramus in chief says.
Core cpi inflation still 2.45% year over year not seasonally adjusted, down from 2.50% yoy last month, Assembly of Experts expects higher next month
A little Iran humor for ya there.
Consumer prices rose 2.4% annually in February, as expected
... The data predates the recent surge in oil prices tied to the war with Iran, meaning any impact from higher energy costs will likely show up in the months ahead. ...
Outside the pandemic, we were last higher than this in Sep 2008.
Iran attacks vessels in the Persian Gulf but ships its own oil to China, threatens to mine the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. littoral combat ships prove inadequate as replacements for legacy minesweepers decommissioned last year
... The UKMTO said it had received 17 reports of incidents affecting vessels operating in and around the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman between Feb. 28, when the war began, and March 11. These include 13 attack reports and four reports of suspicious activity. ...
Iran sends millions of oil barrels to China through Strait of Hormuz even as war chokes the waterway
... Iran has sent at least 11.7 million barrels of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb. 28, all of which were headed to China, Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers, told CNBC on Tuesday.
The firm monitors vessel movements with satellite imagery, allowing it to capture vessels that would otherwise go undetected if their tracking systems are switched off. Many vessels have “gone dark” after Tehran threatened to attack any vessel attempting to pass through the waterway. ...
Over the years, China has built up large crude stockpiles, accumulating an estimated 1.2 billion barrels of inventory as of January, which could fulfill demand for 3 to 4 months, according to Atlantic Council. ...
U.S. forces sink 16 Iranian minelayers as reports say Tehran is mining the Strait of Hormuz
... A CNN report Tuesday said that Iran had started laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, albeit not extensively. Sources that CNN spoke to said only a “few dozen” had been laid in recent days.
The report also said that Iran still retains more than 80% of its small boats and minelayers, and could feasibly lay hundreds of mines in the waterway.
Located between Oman and Iran, the strait saw roughly 13 million barrels of crude per day passing through it in 2025, representing about 31% of all seaborne crude flows, according to energy consulting firm Kpler. ...
CBS News, which reported that Iran “may be getting ready” to deploy naval mines, said the country was using smaller crafts that can carry two to three mines each to lay them in the strait. While Iran’s mine stock isn’t publicly known, estimates over the years have ranged from roughly 2,000 to 6,000 naval mines, the report said. ...
... the U.S. had decommissioned four Avenger-class minesweepers that were stationed in Bahrain in late 2025.
The replacement vessels for the Avenger-class, the Independence-class littoral combat ships, have “struggled to meet the requirements of operational mine countermeasures missions,” according to global naval publication Naval News.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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